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Client Abilities to Assist Counsel and Make

Norman G. Poythress, +4 more
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Assessing patients' capacities to consent to treatment

Paul S. Appelbaum, +1 more
- 22 Dec 1988 - 
TL;DR: The right of patients to accept or refuse recommended treatment requires careful reassessment when their decision-making capacities are called into question, and the clinical examiner's proper role is to gather relevant information and decide whether an adjudication of incompetence is required.
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Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers

Gary B. Melton, +3 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the legal system: sources of law, the Court System, and the Adjudicative Process. But their focus is on mental health professionals.
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Competency to stand trial

Ronald Roesch, +1 more
TL;DR: Melton, Petrila, Poythress, and Slogobin this paper established the competency standard that is currently recognized by the courts was established in Dusky v. United States (362 U.S. 402, 1960), which holds that defendants must be able to consult with an attorney and have rational and factual understanding of the proceedings.
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The competence of criminal defendants: A theoretical reformulation.

Richard J. Bonnie
- 01 Jun 1992 - 
TL;DR: The concept of decisional competence as mentioned in this paper is based on the notion of competence to assist a criminal defense and a contextualized concept of competence for decisional decisional competency to assist criminal defendants.
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Competent and incompetent criminal defendants : a quantitative review of comparative research

Robert A. Nicholson, +1 more
- 01 May 1991 - 
TL;DR: The characteristics most strongly related to incompetency were poor performance on psychological tests or interviews specifically designed to assess defendants' legally relevant functional abilities, a psychotic diagnosis, and psychiatric symptoms reflective of severe psychopathology.